Founder/CEO @ LEANSTACK | Bestselling author and founder

I have bootstrapped several products to millions of users and worked with thousands of early-stage entrepreneurs worldwide - helping them systematically find repeatable and scalable business models using my battle-tested playbooks. 

Instead of:
-Spending several months building a product you hope people will buy.

Imagine a world where you:
- Spend several weeks defining a product you know people will buy.

For aspiring or early-stage founders:

If you’re looking to bootstart your idea, consider joining my 30-day Business Model Design Challenge below: 

You'll learn how to:
- Find or test a big idea worth pursuing,
- Design a business model blueprint,
- Stress-test your idea before investing time, money, and effort. 

Join the next Business Model Design Challenge:
https://runlean.ly/challenge

Ash Maurya

I've been working on something new.

After a decade of teaching Running Lean through frameworks and workshops, I realized something was missing. Founders understood the Lean Canvas intellectually. They could explain Demo-Sell-Build. They got it.

And then they'd go right back to building inside their heads.

The problem wasn't understanding. It was *feeling*. You have to feel the Innovator's Bias before you can overcome it.

So I did something I've never done before.

I wrote a novel.

THE INNOVATOR'S BIAS — a startup novel. Coming April 7th.

Pre-order now on Kindle.

I help founders build business models that scale. Author and creator of Lean Canvas.

These 2 boxes of the Lean Canvas are the outer pillars that carry your business model.

If you get these assumptions wrong, it’s easy to see how everything else in your business model falls apart.

- You end up describing a solution that no one wants (not desirable).
- Even if you build the solution you're already envisioning (feasible),
- No one buys it (not viable).

undefined undefined

The Just Start Manifesto (updated)
==========================
1. Entrepreneurs Are Everywhere.
2. There is No Better Time to Start.
3. Most Products Still Fail.
4. The Number One Reason Why Products Fail: Building Something Nobody Wants. 
5. The Number Two Reason Why Products Fail: Not starting. 
6. You Don’t Need Permission to Start.
7. Don’t Write a Business Plan. Sketch a Business Model.
8. Take Stock of Your Key Beliefs.
9. Take Stock of Your Key Metrics.
10. Take Stock of Your Key Insights.
11. Have Faith in Yourself. Be Ruthless With Your Ideas.
12. Don't Start With an MVP.
13. Not Faux Validation, But Traction
14. Love the Problem, Not Your Solution.
15. Sell Before You Build.
16. Bootstrap Your Way to Early Traction.
17. Focus on Time Versus Timing.
18. Value Your Time Correctly.
19. Avoid Premature Optimization.
20. Practice Right Action, Right Time.
21. Speed of Learning is the Only Unfair Advantage.
22. Speed of Learning x Speed of Execution = 100x Founder.
23. Remove Failure from Your Vocabulary.
24. It’s Time to Act on Your Big Idea.
25. Just Start.

I build systematic frameworks for early-stage founders. Author and creator of Lean Canvas.

The Just Start Manifesto

A feature isn't "done" when the code is shipped.

It's done when it provides validated learning from customers.

But validated learning is still a trailing indicator of what customers want. 

We can do better. 

Demand validation, sell before you build, is a leading indicator of what customers want.

This simple redefinition changes everything about your development process.

Demo-Sell-Build >> Build-Demo-Sell

The Weekend Canvas Exercise

Try this right now. It takes 30 seconds.

Pull up your Lean Canvas. Cover the Solution box with your hand.

Now explain why your business matters.

If you struggle — if the pitch falls apart without the solution — you're building solution-first.

The problem and customer should carry the pitch on their own. The solution is just the delivery mechanism.

I do this exercise every time I update my canvas. It's uncomfortable every single time. That discomfort is the point.

When I built CloudFire, the solution WAS the pitch. "A photo sharing app that..." Take away the app, and there was nothing. The problem wasn't specific enough to stand on its own.

When I built LeanSpark, the pitch without the solution was: "Founders waste months building products nobody wants because they skip structured discovery." That problem stands on its own. The solution is one of many possible responses.

Your problem should be so clear, so specific, and so painful that the audience nods before you ever mention what you built.

Try it. Let me know what you find.

Hot take: AI is making startups fail faster.

Not on purpose. But here's what's happening:

Founders use AI to generate code in hours. Ship MVPs in a weekend. Launch products in weeks instead of months.

Sounds great, right?

Except they're shipping untested ideas at record speed.

The build cost collapsed. But the failure rate didn't. Because the bottleneck was never "can I build it?"

It was always "should I build it?"

AI tools that help you build faster are accelerating the wrong part of the process. You're arriving at the wrong destination — just sooner.

The founders who win in the AI era aren't the ones who ship fastest. They're the ones who think clearest about what to ship.

That means starting with your business model. Stress-testing your assumptions. Running experiments before writing code.

LEANSpark is an AI tool that helps with the part most AI tools ignore — the thinking before the building.

Because the most expensive line of code is the one that solves a problem nobody has.

Free to try. No credit card required.

Every founder I coach thinks their business model is solid. Then we run the stress tests.

The pattern is always the same: strongest on Feasibility. Weak on everything else.

"Can I build it?" Yes.
"Do people want it?" I think so.
"Will the economics work at scale?" ...
"Why now and not 5 years ago?" ...
"What compounds in my favor over time?" ...

Two out of seven isn't a business model. It's a hunch with a prototype.

The blind spots don't kill you on day one. Cracks appear in month 9, and they kill you at month 18 when you've hired a team, raised money, and can't figure out why growth stalled.

What's the dimension you've never stress-tested?

I interviewed 47 customers. All of them said yes.

"Love the concept."
"Would definitely use this."
"When can I sign up?"

So I built it. 9 months. Full product. A photo-sharing app called CloudFire.

500 people signed up. Revenue trickled in. And then I did a 5-minute calculation that I should have done on day one, which proved my model wasn't viable for my business goal. 


47 people told me what I wanted to hear. Zero people told me the truth.

The lesson I carry everywhere now: Compliments are not evidence. Enthusiasm is not commitment. The only validation that matters is someone reaching for their wallet.

Three levels of customer evidence:
1. They SAY they have the problem
2. They SPEND money solving it today
3. They'll COMMIT money to YOUR solution

Most founders stop at level 1 and call it "validated."

Level 3 is where the truth lives.

What's the most misleading validation you've ever received?

Why "Talk to Customers" Is Bad Advice

"Talk to customers" is the most common startup advice. It's also the least useful.

Because HOW you talk to them matters more than WHETHER you talk to them.

Bad customer conversations:
- "Would you use a product that does X?" (Leading question — always gets yes)
- "What features would you want?" (They design your product for you — badly)
- "Is this a big problem?" (They agree to be polite)

Good customer conversations:
- "Walk me through the last time this happened." (Specific, past tense)
- "What did you do about it?" (Reveals actual behavior)
- "How much did that cost you?" (Quantifies the pain)

The difference: bad conversations confirm your bias. Good conversations reveal reality.

The single biggest upgrade is:

Stop asking what people would do. Start asking what they already did.

No alternative text description for this image

Meet the Lean(er) Canvas.

While sketching out a complete Lean Canvas is a great exercise for deconstructing an idea into a business model, here's an even faster ideation tool I use at the outset of all my ideas.

I focus attention on just the two outer boxes of the canvas: Customer segment and Problem.

These are the outer pillars that carry your business model.

If you get these assumptions wrong, it’s easy to see how everything else in your business model falls apart.

- You end up describing a solution that no one wants (not desirable).
- Even if you build the solution you're already envisioning (feasible),
- no one buys it (not viable).

Yes, just these 4 boxes are enough to prompt you to stress test your idea's desirability, viability, and feasibility.

If your idea doesn't pass these stress tests, your channels and unfair advantages won’t offer any respite.

Your business model is doomed.

Most Lean Canvases I see have this problem.

Trying to be two (or more) businesses at once.

I see this pattern constantly:

- Customer segment says "Small businesses AND enterprises"
- Revenue streams lists "subscriptions AND marketplace fees"
- Problem box describes two unrelated pain points

This is split model confusion. And it's the #1 reason for aimless wandering. 

Too many business models makes your canvas vague and you can't test a vague idea. 

The solution: create multiple smaller focused variants with exactly one business model on them. 

Here's how:

1. Detect the split axis
Is the tension in your customer segments? Your revenue model? Your channels? Your solution?

2. Stress-test independently
Run each variant through the same rigor: viability, desirability, and feasibility. The numbers will tell you which model has the most potential.

3. Choose with evidence, not intuition
Now you're not guessing which model to pursue. You're comparing validated data across focused alternatives.

This is the search mindset.

Most founders skip straight to execution with a single, broad model and spend months wondering why nothing clicks.

The best founders explore 2-3 focused models in parallel and converge on the winner fast.

I built this entire workflow into LEANSpark. It detects the split, generates focused variants in parallel, and lets you stress-test each one independently.

Watch it in action 👇

Simple models help us understand the complex. 

Before investing in any company, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger use a latticework of mental models to evaluate the company. 

If it passes their tests, they move all in. Otherwise, they do nothing and wait.

Evaluating early-stage ideas is no different.

I have settled on 3 universal (product-agnostic) mental models that I use to
- baseline progress,
- prioritize risks, and
- formulate a “right action, right time” next step.

Here they are: 

1. Lean Canvas: Deconstruct an idea using 12 basic building blocks.

2. Traction Roadmap: Chart key milestones using 5 customer-centric metrics.  

3. Customer Forces: Understand customer behavior using 4 causal forces. 

BELIEFS + METRICS + INSIGHTS = BUSINESS MODEL STORY

Entrepreneurship is like a martial art — you can only learn by doing.

But "doing" without a sparring partner means burning months on the wrong thing.

LEANSpark is the sparring partner. Maps your business model, spots risky assumptions, and designs/runs experiments with you.

Free to try. No credit card.

Your Unique Value Proposition has 8 seconds to work.

That's how long first-time visitors spend on landing pages.

Forget complex benefit statements. Focus on the finished story benefit:

❌ "Eye-catching résumé templates"
✅ "Land your dream job"

Get inside your customer's head, not your product features.

The biggest waste in startups isn't money. It's effort spent on the wrong things at the wrong time.

I've worked with founders who worked 80-hour weeks and made zero progress — because they were doing Stage 3 activities at Stage 1.

Brand redesigns when they hadn't validated the problem. Growth hacking when they didn't have product-market fit. Hiring when they couldn't describe their customer.

Every stage has 2-3 actions that matter. Everything else is noise.

What stage are you at right now, and what are your 2-3?

#RightActionRightTime

Right Action, Right Time

We pre-sold 209 customers in 40 days.

Before writing a single line of production code.

Here's the Demo-Sell-Build playbook:

Most founders go Build > Demo > Sell. 

(Without vibe-coding):
Months of building. Then hoping someone buys.

(With Vibe-coding):
Days of building. Then months of trying to get someone to buy.

We flipped it: Demo > Sell > Build.

Step 1: DEMO.
We didn't build a product. We built a demonstration of the transformation. What does your life look like AFTER using this? We showed that. Perfectly okay to vibe-code here without going overboard on product. A demo is NOT meant to be used by customers. 

Step 2: SELL.
Not "would you use this?" — that's a survey.
Not "would you pay $50/mo?" — that's still a survey.
But "pay $150 to get early-access" — that's validation.
209 out of 307 people committed. 68% conversion rate.

Step 3: BUILD.
Now we knew exactly what to build, who it was for, and that they'd pay. No guessing. No hoping. Just executing against validated demand.

The fear: "But what if the demo isn't perfect?"
It doesn't have to be. That's the point. You're testing demand, not polish.

Building is the most expensive way to test an assumption. And yes, even when AI makes building cheaper, building without validation just digs a bigger future-sunk-cost fallacy sand trap. 

A demo costs hours. A product costs months.

The safest career move in 2026 isn't a promotion. It's validating a business model on the side.

Here's the math nobody talks about:

Your employer is actively figuring out how to do your job with AI and fewer people. That's not cynicism — that's their fiduciary duty to shareholders. Every earnings call now includes "AI efficiency gains." You're the efficiency being gained.

Meanwhile, the same AI that threatens your role has collapsed the cost of starting a company by 10x.

What used to require a co-founder, $500K in funding, and 18 months of runway — one person with domain expertise and AI can now validate in 90 days for under $1K.

The risk equation has flipped. But most people are still operating on the old math:
- Old math: Job = safe. Startup = risky.
- New math: Job = someone else controls your future. Validated startup = you control your future.

I'm not saying quit tomorrow. I'm saying: the skills you've built over 5, 10, 15 years in your industry? Those aren't just resume lines. They're founder superpowers.

You already know the problems. You already know the customers. You already know what's broken.

The only thing you haven't done is validate whether someone will pay you to fix it.

That's a weekend experiment, not a life decision.

What's the one problem in your industry that you see every day and nobody is solving well?

Here's a test for your "competitive advantage":

Can someone replicate it in 90 days with enough money?

If yes, it's not an advantage. It's a head start. And head starts disappear.

Things that are NOT advantages:
- "Our team" (good teams can be hired)
- "Our technology" (technology can be rebuilt)
- "First mover" (first movers get outcompeted by fast followers constantly)
- "Our features" (features get copied in weeks)

Things that ARE advantages:
- Network effects that compound (each user makes the product better for all users)
- Proprietary data that grows with usage (every interaction trains your system)
- Brand trust earned through years of consistent delivery
- Switching costs that deepen over time (not artificial lock-in — genuine integration depth)

The pattern: Real advantages get STRONGER the longer you operate. Fake advantages get WEAKER the more competitors enter.

Fill in the blank: "The longer we operate, _________ gets harder for competitors to replicate."

If you can't fill that in, your advantage is a head start, not a moat.

The Math That Changed How I Build

10 experiments at $100 each teach you more than 1 launch at $10,000.

Same total investment. 10x the learning.

The math:
- 10 experiments = 10 data points, 10 chances to be wrong, 10 opportunities to adjust
- 1 launch = 1 data point, 1 chance to be wrong, 1 expensive lesson

Early in my career, I optimized for launches. Big reveals. Grand openings. Each one felt significant. Most of them taught me one thing: I was wrong about something I could have tested for $100.

Now I optimize for learning velocity. How many assumptions can I test this month? Not how many features can I ship?

The founders who learn fastest don't have bigger budgets. They run smaller experiments.

What's one assumption you could test this week for under $100?

How to build your first startup moat.
Most founders don’t have an unfair advantage to start, and that’s okay.

A true unfair advantage is something that cannot be easily copied or bought. And finding one takes time.

The good news is that you don’t need one at the early stages, since all ideas sound a little crazy at first. 

So, embrace your obscurity as a gift and...

First, hunker down and focus on building a compelling Unique Value Proposition before your Unfair Advantage.

Then lean into what makes your compelling Unique Value Proposition truly unique — something different and better…

Turn that into a Counter-positioning strategy -- something incumbents can't copy without hurting their business model.

You’ll have the beginnings of your first unfair advantage.

LinkedIn Growth Hacker✌️ ||Believe in Smart work💥 || Content Creator🖋️|| Believe in Opportunities💫|| Adding a little spark✨

LinkedIn Growth Hacker | Brand Builder | Marketer | ML Engineer | Public Speaker | Featured at Times Square

Most LinkedIn profiles get views. Few get growth.

I help creators, professionals, and brands turn their LinkedIn presence into a growth engine, attracting visibility, opportunities, and authority.

Many people have incredible skills or products, but their profiles don’t reflect their value. I change that.

I’ve scaled my own LinkedIn to 130,000+ followers, not with luck, trends, or gimmicks, but with a proven system of growth-focused content, strategic branding, and audience-first engagement.

Now, I help others do the same. My focus is on amplifying your authority, building a strong personal brand, and growing your audience, so you become the go-to name in your niche.

What I do:

✅ LinkedIn Growth Strategy 
✅ Content Creation & Branding 
✅ Brand Collaborations & Campaigns 
✅ Profile Optimization

If you want to scale your LinkedIn, grow your influence, and turn your brand into a visible authority, let’s connect.

➡️ DM me or email: v.toshniwal2828@gmail.com

Always open to meaningful conversations, collaborations, and opportunities in AI, ML, and tech-driven products.

Currently seeking Tech / Machine Learning Engineer opportunities.

Vidhi Toshniwal

My developer quoted me ₹5,00,000
for a simple internal app.

All I wanted was:

➡️ Track my clients’ LinkedIn post performance
➡️ See engagement data clearly
➡️ Monitor growth trends
➡️ Generate clean reports

Nothing complex.
Just clarity.

₹5 lakh.

For a minute, I convinced myself…
“Maybe that’s the cost of building software.”

Then, while scrolling LinkedIn, I discovered Replit.

I decided to try it.

That decision saved me ₹5,00,000.

No servers.

I described what I wanted.

And I had a working, full-stack app.

Not a mockup.
Not slides.

A real app with logic, data storage, authentication, ready to use.

That’s when I understood something powerful:

Replit isn’t just for experimenting.

It supports the full journey:

👉 Start — Turn an idea into something real, fast.
👉 Build — Everything in one place.
👉 Scale — Production-ready, secure, built to grow.

Biggest realization?

We don’t always need a full tech team to validate an idea.
Sometimes we just need the right platform.

₹5 lakh saved.
One idea shipped.

If you’re sitting on an idea because “it’s too expensive”,

Maybe it’s not.

Maybe you just haven’t started yet.

➡️ https://lnkd.in/gg9cPEwR

P.S: I have already saved 5 Lakh Rs.  
Now it's your turn 😎

I used to type everywhere.

On the bus.
At the cafe.
Even in random co-working spots.

My brain would move faster than my fingers. Mistakes. Backspaces. Endless edits.

Then I tried something different.

I started speaking instead of typing.

With Wispr Flow, everything I say turns into perfectly formatted text, emails, Slack messages, notes, even code. It works across every app I use.

➡️ 500ms latency
➡️ 85% zero-edit rate
➡️ Emoji commands & whisper mode
➡️ Works in 70+ apps

72% of my work today? Voice-only. My keyboard barely gets touched anymore.

And now, Android users can finally join in. Same speed, same accuracy, same magic.

Work anywhere. Speak naturally. Get more done.

My keyboard? Officially retired.

Try it yourself and see how much faster you can get things done.

https://wisprflow.ai

Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow 

A mentor once told me,

“Invest in yourself early. The returns compound for life.”

At that time, I didn’t fully understand it.
Now I do.

We spend years working hard…
But hesitate when it comes to upgrading our own skills.

Here’s the truth:

𝙊𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩.
𝙎𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.

This Holi season, instead of just adding color to your clothes…
Add value to your career. 🎨

Right now, Coursera Plus Annual is available at ₹7,499 (instead of ₹13,999) until 9th March.

Access to 10,000+ programs.
Top universities.
Industry experts.
One subscription.

We always say “I’ll start learning soon.”

Soon becomes next month.
Next month becomes next year.

And suddenly we’re behind.

Building your future is important.
But building the right skills is what makes that future powerful.

This could be the smartest ₹7,499 you invest this year.

If growth is on your mind, don’t ignore this.

Here’s the link:
https://lnkd.in/gZ9P499A

Let’s upgrade ourselves 🚀

Building a 24/7 financial assistant used to sound like something only Wall Street firms could afford.

Now anyone can do it in minutes.

I recently built a simple Autonomous Financial Intelligence System using Kimi Claw.

Just a smart AI agent that:

➡️ Tracks financial data
➡️ Generates automated reports
➡️ Sends insights on schedule
➡️ Remembers preferences over time

Instead of constantly checking dashboards and market updates… the system brings insights to me.

A few things I love about it:

✓ Runs 24/7 in the cloud
✓ Generates weekly and daily financial reports
✓ Uses thousands of built-in skills for analysis
✓ Stores data and past insights with persistent memory

The carousel breaks down the exact steps I used to build it with Kimi Claw.

Now it's your turn.

Do check out
➡️ https://www.kimi.com/bot

Kimi AI 

Google just reset the AI career ladder.

One certificate.
Built for real work.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲.
𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘁.

That gap?
It’s widening every single month.

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘.

𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘

➡️ 6 short, practical courses
➡️ 20+ hands-on labs
➡️ A final project where you build a real AI solution

You’ll work with tools used in real jobs:

– Google AI tools
– Gemini
– NotebookLM
– AI Studio

Why this matters (a lot):
AI isn’t “nice to have” anymore.
It’s becoming baseline skill expectation.

This certificate:

✓ Is built from real job-market data
✓ Teaches how to apply AI, not just talk about it
✓ Ends with a Google-backed certificate employers actually trust

If you’re a professional in 2026 and
AI is still “optional” for you, the market has already decided otherwise.

Learn how to build with AI, not compete against it.

👉 Start here: https://lnkd.in/gRUcR9QP

AI won’t take your job.
But someone who knows how to use it might.

#ai

I think we’re underestimating what AI agents can actually do.

I watched Abacus AI Deep Agent take a simple prompt and build a full working app in minutes.

Not slides. Not concepts.
An actual product with frontend, backend, database, and logic already connected.

That’s when it clicked for me.
👉 http://deepagent.abacus.ai

Here’s what stood out:

• FULL-STACK APPS FROM ONE PROMPT
UI, backend, databases, and forms built together in one flow.
And now mobile apps too. Describe your idea, and Deep Agent builds a full app ready to publish.

• LAUNCH AN ONLINE STARTUP IN MINUTES
Landing pages, login systems, payments, and data storage created in the same build.

• COMPLEX SOFTWARE & SAAS WITH SIMPLE TEXT
You explain how it should work.
Deep Agent handles the structure and builds it.
CRMs, internal tools, Notion-style systems, and HR software usable tools.

• MICRO-SAAS IDEAS THAT FEEL REALISTIC
Resume tools, niche utilities, and lead magnets are easier to test and launch.

• APPS & GAMES CREATION
Sudoku, Minecraft-style builds, Conway’s Game of Life, and interactive tools.

• CREATE YOUR OWN CHATGPT-STYLE APPS
Founder assistants, workout planners, research helpers, and domain-specific AI apps.

• REPORTS, DECKS & PRESENTATIONS
Charts, visuals, structured insights - ready quickly.

• SPREADSHEETS → INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS
Upload Excel or CSV files and get metrics and visual breakdowns.

• IMAGE & VIDEO GENERATION BUILT IN
Work with text, PDFs, images, videos, and code in one place.

• TURN RESEARCH PAPERS INTO AUDIO
Deep Agent converts research into listenable conversations.

• DEEP AGENT BROWSER EXTENSION
Describe a workflow, and it executes it step by step.

For founders, this speeds up idea testing.
For teams, it changes how work gets executed.

👉 Abacus AI Deep Agent
http://deepagent.abacus.ai

I thought people were exaggerating when they said “AI agents change everything.”

Then I watched one quietly build an app from scratch.

In a few minutes, it had the frontend, backend, database, and logic in place.
Nothing fancy on the surface - it just… worked.

This is Abacus AI Deep Agent 
An AI agent that handles execution the way a small engineering team would.

👉 http://deepagent.abacus.ai

Here’s what really stood out:

➡️ FULL-STACK APPS FROM ONE PROMPT
UI, backend, databases, and forms created together in one flow.
And now mobile apps too. Describe what you want, and Deep Agent builds a full app you can publish.

➡️ LAUNCH AN ONLINE STARTUP IN MINUTES
Landing pages, login systems, payments, and data storage are handled together instead of pieced apart.

➡️ COMPLEX SOFTWARE & SAAS USING SIMPLE TEXT
You explain how it should look and work.
Deep Agent figures out the structure and builds it.

CRMs, internal tools, Notion-style systems, HR software built for real usage.

➡️ MICRO-SAAS IDEAS THAT FEEL POSSIBLE
Resume tools, niche utilities, and lead magnets ideas that used to feel heavy now feel worth trying.

➡️ APPS & GAMES GENERATED QUICKLY
Sudoku, Minecraft-style games, Conway’s Game of Life, and interactive tools - ready to use as soon as they’re created.

➡️ BUILD YOUR OWN CHATGPT-STYLE APPS
Founder assistants, workout planners, diet tools, research helpers, domain-specific AI tools.

➡️ REPORTS, DECKS & PRESENTATIONS
Charts, visuals, and structured insights put together in minutes.

➡️ SPREADSHEETS → INTERACTIVE DASHBOARDS
Upload Excel or CSV files and get metrics, explanations, and visuals automatically.

➡️ IMAGE & VIDEO GENERATION BUILT IN
Work with text, PDFs, images, videos, and code in the same place.

➡️ TURN RESEARCH PAPERS INTO AUDIO
Deep Agent turns long papers into audio conversations you can actually listen to.

➡️ DEEP AGENT BROWSER EXTENSION
Describe a workflow, and it executes each step automatically with no manual setup.

For founders, this changes how fast ideas can be tested.
For teams, it changes how work gets distributed.

Worth keeping an eye on.
👉 Abacus AI Deep Agent
http://deepagent.abacus.ai

Cancel your AI subscriptions.

I know that sounds dramatic. But I actually did it after 2 years of paying for almost every AI tool out there.

I was opening ChatGPT for writing, research, and summaries.
Gemini for images.
Kling for videos.
Another tool for vibe-coding apps.
Another one for presentations.

Nothing was wrong with the tools. The problem was fragmentation.

Then I moved everything into ChatLLM by Abacus hi AI. - 

One place for all major AI models
GPT-5.2, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3 Pro, Grok 4.1 Fast, DeepSeek, LLaMA, same workspace, same context.

Images and videos without switching products
Nano Banana Pro, FLUX, Seedream, Ideogram for images.
Sora, VEO, Kling, Runway, Luma, Grok Imagine for videos.

Full-stack apps, websites, and SaaS from prompts
Type an idea and see it live. Layout, colors, copy, and logic all editable.

Presentations that don’t feel empty
Simple inputs turn into structured decks with research, charts, and flow.

An assistant who keeps working in the background
Tasks, searches, and workflows progress even when I’m not active.

PDFs become interactive
Upload documents, ask questions, and extract notes instead of reading line by line.

AI text that sounds human
Generate, humanize, choose a tone, and use it as-is.

Real-time web research
Answers come with sources, visuals, and context.

Deep Agent for real outputs
Apps, reports, dashboards, workflows, micro-SaaS.

A code editor that actually supports building
Write, run, debug, and improve without chaos.
At some point, it stopped feeling like using tools.
It felt like working inside one system.

That’s why I cancelled everything else.  Try it now, it’s only $10 a month - http://chatllm.abacus.ai

I was flipping through a magazine when a full-page ad made me pause.

“The best camera we’ve ever made.”

Naturally, I assumed it was a camera brand.
The product styling, the setup, the confidence in the line, everything pointed to a serious professional camera.

Then I opened the page.

The camera quietly slipped into a pocket.

And the line read:
“It’s also a smartphone.”

That small reveal changed the entire story.

What looked like a professional camera ad was actually showcasing the Xiaomi 17 Ultra, a smartphone built around a camera-first philosophy, co-engineered with Leica.

It’s a clever reminder of how far smartphone photography has come.

Features like advanced imaging tech, innovations such as LOFIC and 200MP continuous optical zoom, and the optional Photography Kit Pro are pushing the boundaries of what we expect from a phone.

What I appreciated most wasn’t just the product story, it was the storytelling.

In a time where most ads compete for attention on screens, this print execution creates a genuine “aha moment.”

One simple twist turns curiosity into admiration.

Smart idea.
Unexpected reveal.
Memorable storytelling.

#Xiaomi17Ultra

As a creator, I see hundreds of brand campaigns every week.

Most of them? Copy-paste energy.
Bold claim. Pretty visual. Quiet fine print.

But this one actually made me stop scrolling.

POCO just launched something called the Fastest BS Service.

The idea, since their X8 Pro Series needs zero disclaimers, they'll help other brands hide theirs. They brought in India's fastest rapper, Gaush, to speed-rap competitor fine print so fast nobody can understand it.

The brands winning with Gen Z aren't the loudest ones.
They're the most honest ones.

POCO didn't just launch a phone.
They launched a mirror at the entire industry.

9000mAh battery. Dimensity 9500. 3Mn+ Antutu score.
No asterisks. No conditions.

All Power. No BS.

Honestly the kind of campaign I wish I could say I ideated. 😭

📍 https://lnkd.in/gwqUC5eQ

Yaar koi mujhe batao how is Manyavar so good at this??

They just dropped a Wedding Music Video with Vijay and Rashmika and I am not okay. 

The video is SO cute, the chemistry is insane, and Amit Trivedi ka music? Chef's kiss.

But also, let's talk about the big brain energy here. Manyavar didn't make an ad. They made a wedding film that people actually want to watch and share. No voiceover or "buy now." Just a beautiful story about a wedding that almost  just happened.

They literally created a cultural moment.

The timing is also wild. When Vijay and Rashmika are the hottest topic on the internet, Manyavar already had this in the bag. That's not coincidence, that's someone on their team who really understands the pulse.

Bohot din baad kuch aisa dekha jisme brand feel hi nahi hua. 

And that's the biggest compliment you can give a marketing team.

Vedant Fashions Limited - Manyavar-Mohey 

#Manyavar #WeddingMusicVideo #VijayRashmika

When I was younger, I used to get irritated when my nani asked too many questions.

“How does this work?”
“Who decides this?”
“What happens if it fails?”

At the time, it felt unnecessary.
Today, it feels like wisdom.

Every AI system I’ve seen break in production broke for the same reason:
no one truly understood it.

It worked in demos.
It impressed in meetings.
But when something went wrong, there were no clear answers, only guesses.

The strongest teams I’ve worked with build differently.

They slow down first.
They analyze intent before writing logic.
They design how agents interact, not just what they output.
They build systems they can explain without slides.

That approach is exactly what Architect enables.

It follows the same discipline:
analyze → orchestrate → build.

Nothing hidden.
Nothing assumed.
Just glass-box transparency from the start.

Funny how nani’s questions ended up becoming a blueprint for how AI should be built.

I’ve been exploring Architect and seeing how it applies these principles to real workflows:
https://lnkd.in/g6grt-M6

I never thought that a task as simple as booking a househelp could teach me a business lesson.

Last week, I tried Urban Company for the first time.

Service done. Payment done. I thought that was it.

Then the app asked:
“Do you want to book the same professional next time?”

A tiny question… but a genius idea.

Because in service businesses, the hardest part isn’t getting a customer once.
It’s making them come back.

Urban Company quietly solves that problem. The next time you open the app, the professional you already trust appears as a preferred option.

Just comfort and familiarity.

Most companies chase the first sale.
The smart ones? They make the second sale effortless.

Small product decisions = big retention wins.

P.S: What’s one small feature in a product or service that made you come back again and again?

I was reading an article this morning, and one thing just stopped me, the new Tata Punch.ev has been revealed at a starting price of Rs 9.69 lakh (ex-showroom). And once I went down that rabbit hole, I couldn't stop.

Now I follow car launches quite closely, and the EV space especially has been fascinating to watch. But what Tata has done with the new Punch.ev genuinely surprised me.

The safety package alone is something else. Over 60 safety features, including Hill Ascent and Descent Control, Electronic Stability Program, Hill Hold Control, ISOFIX child seat anchors, and even an SOS calling function built right in. That's not just car safety, that's peace of mind at a price most people wouldn't expect.

Then there's the connected car experience through IRA.ev, which comes standard across all variants. We're talking about real-time charge status, remote diagnostics, geo-fencing, valet mode, and alerts for everything from an open door to an abrupt charge cut-off. And if that wasn't enough, you can control the car from your smartwatch, lock, unlock, switch the AC on, and precool the cabin before you even walk to the parking lot.

On the comfort side, a voice-assisted electric sunroof, cooled glovebox, 90-degree door opening, and 366L of boot space are the kind of everyday touches that make ownership genuinely enjoyable rather than just practical.

A lifetime battery warranty on the 40 kWh pack ties it all together. Tata isn't just selling a car here; they're selling safety and confidence.

The more I read, the more I felt this isn't just a good EV. It's a genuinely good car.

I stopped paying for most of my AI tools.

Not because they were bad.
Because using them together became exhausting.

Every task meant opening a different product.

One tool for writing and research.
Another for images.
Another for video generation.
Another for building apps.
Another for presentations.

The tools were powerful. The workflow was messy.

That’s where Abacus AI changed the workflow.
https://abacus.ai/ 

Start for as low as $7!!
Instead of jumping across tools, everything runs inside one system.

Here’s what that looks like:

1. Multiple frontier models in one workspace

GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6, Grok 4.1, DeepSeek V3.2 and others available inside the same workspace.

2. AI video generation

Use models like Kling 3.0, Sora 2, Luma, Runway, Wan 2.5, and Veo 3.1 to generate videos from prompts.

3. AI image generation

Create visuals using Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 4.5, FLUX, Ideogram, Recraft and ChatGPT Image Gen.

4. Humanize AI content

Turn AI-generated text into natural, human-sounding writing and adjust tone easily.

5. Build full apps and websites

Type a prompt and generate full-stack apps, websites, or small SaaS projects.

6. AI-generated presentations

Provide a topic and generate structured slides with research, charts, and flow.

7. Secure OpenClaw agents

Create a personal Telegram agent that can handle emails, schedule meetings, book tickets, and connect with tools securely.

8. AI coding environment

A desktop workspace with a CLI, AI code editor, and assistant to build and run projects without switching tools.

9. DeepAgent for real outputs

Generate research reports, dashboards, apps, travel plans, workflows, and more from a single prompt.

At some point, it stopped feeling like using separate AI tools.

It felt like working inside one system.
Try now 👉🏻 https://abacus.ai/  Start as low as $7 - Do everything with AI

A B2B fintech brand just made me stop scrolling. That doesn't happen often.

Cashfree Payments dropped "One of Your Kind" and it is nothing like what you expect from a payments company.

No product pitches. No feature talk. Just the real moments behind building BigBasket, Third Wave Coffee, RedBus, Heads Up For Tails and more.

As someone who lives and breathes brand storytelling, this is how you build emotional equity in a space everyone treats as a commodity.

Every business builds its own way. The infrastructure behind it should understand that.

This is what intentional brand building looks like.

Shoutout to Akash S. and Reeju Datta for bringing this story to life. 👏

#CashfreePayments #OneOfYourKind

For over a decade, Cashfree Payments has powered payments for 1 million+ businesses across India.

Working closely with startups, D2C, SaaS, travel and growing businesses reveals something quickly.

No two successful businesses operate the same way - each is one of a kind. 
Some brands scale through flash sales.
Some run marketplaces with multiple sellers.
Some deal with COD orders and returns.
Some start selling globally from day one.

Every business solves problems in its own way. And their payments need to work the same way.

At Cashfree Payments, we build payments around how businesses actually operate and what they need. Whether you are processing your first hundred orders or scaling to millions of transactions.

Cashfree Payments. One of Your Kind.

bigbasket | | redBus | Heads Up For Tails | Third Wave Coffee | Prashanti Sarees

#OneOfYourKind

Today’s social media scroll came with a pleasant surprise.

I came across RADHA Diamond and Gold Jewellery, and for a moment it felt like the jewellery brand KISNA diamond and Gold Jewellery had introduced a new identity.

But the idea behind it was far more meaningful and unique.

For Women’s Day, the brand chose to rename itself, placing a feminine power at the forefront as a tribute to the strength, grace and wisdom.

It’s a subtle gesture, but one that speaks volumes.

Because sometimes, the most powerful tributes simply place women where they truly belong, at the heart of it all.

#InternationalWomensDay #HonouringHer #TodayIAmRadha #KISNADiamondAndGoldJewellery #CelebratingWomanhood

taplio

The Battle

Ash Maurya

Vidhi Toshniwal

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScoreAsh Maurya's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreVidhi Toshniwal's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Ash Maurya

Vidhi Toshniwal

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Ash Maurya's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreVidhi Toshniwal's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScoreAsh Maurya's LinkedIn Performance